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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300247369 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6300247368 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: January 19, 1999 Running Time: 93 minutes Sales Rank: 11826 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: July 17, 1981
Amazon.com: After having a surprise hit playing Dracula in Love at First Bite, George Hamilton seized the moment and spoofed another movie hero: Zorro. In fact, he plays two characters: the heroic Don Diego, who fights Spanish tyranny in Old California in his secret identity as Zorro, and Diego's long-absent brother, Bunny Wigglesworth, a man totally comfortable with his sexual identity and unafraid of accessorizing the Zorro outfit by rendering it in purple. When the swashbuckler is injured, he turns his sword over to the swishbuckler, who is just as good a swordsman, though a few shades less fiery. Some of the gay humor is heavy-handed, but Hamilton easily handles the comedy demands of the dual roles, and has strong support from Ron Leibman as the chief bad guy. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - glad to have it back
i am just to have this back on dvd. though at first i thought it was a bootleg copy. because the cover looked funny and the movie quality is a little suspect. but i am glad to have the film again.
Rating: - A Zany Zorro!
This is a wild romp through the mythic story of the Robin Hood of early California. It's totally campy, completely over the top, and never once takes itself seriously - which is why it's so fun.
Rating: - Spoof Zorro
George Hanilton had already spoofed Dracula and the vampire genre in the film Love at First Bite, this time he took his satirical aim at Zorro. He pokes a big finger of 1940's Tyrone Power The Mark of Zorro
Hamilton could have played this Zorro straight and would have made this work. However, in a comedy twist, when his Dom Diego character hurts his foot in an Zorro related accident, he enlisted his long lost brother Ramone (now called Bunny Wigglesworth)(Also played by Hamilton) in his Zorro cause..and the fun begins.
Bunny plays Zorro in many colorful zorro garbs, ... Read More
Rating: - Tongue in cheek gay humor to keep you laughing.
This movie was made way before the whole "PC" epidemic, when you could laugh at anything because it was just funny. George Hamilton plays both Zorro and his gay brother. He bounces back forth between a womanizer and an effeminant with hilarious results. The supporting cast are amazing and this movie is still funny 20 something years later, as proved by the laughs of my teenage children. Pick it up and enjoy a comedy the whole family can watch.
Rating: - The pipples are not happy!
If you like comedies and spoofs then this one shouldn't be left out. While it is outdated. it's still a classic spoof. In the time of Love At First Bite (1979) and the king of all spoofs; Airplane ('80) there lies Zorro the Gay Blade which stars George Hamilton playing a duel role.
George Hamilton plays a bumbling Zorro who is trying to stop the evil Spanish governor Esteban (Ron Leibman) from squashing the peasants. All this happens as he is wooing the beautiful Charlotte Taylor Wilson who was played by the Pepsi Light commerical supermodel Larren Hutton. Esteban senses that Don ... Read More
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